Josef Polišenský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josef Polišenský

Czech historian

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1915

Place of Birth: Prostějov, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2001

Profession: historian

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Josef Vincent Polišenský (1915–2001) was a Czech academic historian and Latin Americanist.
He is best known in the English-speaking world for his book Tragic Triangle: The Netherlands, Spain and Bohemia, 1617–1621 (Prague, Charles University, 1991), a study of the international political context of the Bohemian Revolt. His earlier study of the Bohemian Revolt, The Thirty Years War, was translated into English by R.J.W.
Evans and published in England by B.
T.
Batsford (1970) and in the U.S.
by University of California Press (1971). He also wrote a general history of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia in a 1947 book, History of Czechoslovakia in Outline.